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Niagara Falls ‘at breaking point’ after surge in migrants

City’s hotels are filled with asylum seekers as fears grow that Trump’s immigration crackdown will send more fleeing across the border

The lobby of the Wyndham Garden Tower Hotel in Niagara Falls at 8am is busy with chatter in all manner of languages.

The chatter is not from tourists heading out to admire the mist-covered waterfalls, however, but from children who are living at the hotel after arriving from Africa with parents seeking asylum.

Minutes later they are gone, climbing into two yellow buses to take them to school.

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